Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When you dignify such fantasies by further stating that Gum, Inc. is "the biggest firm in the U. S. catering exclusively to the penny gum trade," you are guilty not only of an error but you have innocently damaged the reputation of the firm that is entitled to the very statements you make for Mr. Bowman's company...
TIME was misinformed on the first count, right on the second. According to the best impartial estimates in the chewing gum trade, no single company does so much as half the total bubble gum business. Frank H. Fleer Corp. ("Bubble Bubble") and Gum, Inc., are each credited with about 30%, the Goudy Gum Co. of Boston with slightly less. The Fleer company is older and larger than Gum, Inc., but it does not cater exclusively to the penny gum trade...
Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...
There was once a time when the football week-end tapeed with tomato juice. Sunday morning quarterbacks and the spotpages. Now professional football prolongs the week-end Sunday afternoon. With the subway trade, it really begins For this, Dr. Harry W. March of New York is responsible. parsuaded Timothy J. Mara to finance the first big-league pro football team--the Giants of New York. That...
...stinging rebuke : "Every time there is a price rise or fall, there is an outcry from those who lose money." Two days later, however, having already tripled margins and taken the unusual step of ordering traders to reveal their market positions without easing the strain, the Chicago Board of Trade suspended trading in September corn, ordered all deals settled at a price of $1.10½ a bu. It was the first time since 1918 that such emergency action had been necessary to halt a corn squeeze...